I don't get Microsoft's new Xbox tactic

[Machiavellian]

lucidium said:

Machiavellian said:

The X1 doesn't need a cable input because they are making deals with cable company to have their Apps.  The reason these same Apps are not on the Sony consoles is because Sony is in competition with the cable companies.  Today the 360 has Time Warner, Xfinity, Comcast, Version.  For people who use those services, they can cut the cable box completely.

Annnnd the entire point of having the hdmi passthrough becomes moot, why daisy chain all your hardware through the console when you can simply run them as apps?.

might have something to do with people not wanting to have to subscribe to a service to access a service theyre already subscribed to, just an idea.

Because only the big cable companies have such apps.  At this point in time its a fix for the other cable and satalite providers.  As more of those companies develop their own app then then the X1 will easily host those apps as well.